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2:48

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2:51

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AKA me, of the conspiracy files. And

3:23

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3:32

today on the conspiracy files, we are going to

3:34

be taking a look at one of the most

3:37

compelling conspiracies in my opinion of all time. The

3:40

story of the Oakland County child

3:42

killings, the unsolved murders of four

3:44

children. There are links to a

3:47

international pedophile ring centered

3:49

on a island called North

3:51

Fox Island. And it's crazy because I'm doing

3:53

this podcast right now. And just a few

3:55

days ago, I got back to Houston from

3:58

Detroit, where I actually filmed the whole. episode

4:00

for my YouTube channel, The Paranormal Files, investigating

4:03

this story. We visited the locations where these

4:05

bodies were dumped that you're going to hear

4:07

about. We interviewed people connected

4:10

to the story. We investigated leads

4:13

and ultimately we actually chartered a boat

4:15

out to North Fox Island to see

4:17

this place for ourselves. And oh my

4:20

God, this conspiracy is disturbing. This podcast is

4:23

going to be disturbing. And

4:25

that episode of my YouTube channel is

4:27

going to be disturbing. So I'm

4:29

going to time this out so that

4:31

that documentary is released before this episode.

4:34

So if you want to

4:36

go see what we found on North

4:38

Fox Island for yourself, after listening to

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this, I would highly recommend going to

4:42

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4:44

link's going to be in the description

4:46

and look for our video titled pedophile

4:48

island, the darkest place in America. But

4:51

anyways, enough of that. Got some incredible news

4:53

coming up soon, guys. I'm so glad to

4:55

have everybody joining us for this journey here.

4:58

And yeah, let's just dig right in. Decades

5:02

have passed since the initial events of

5:04

the Oakland County child killer case, yet

5:06

it remains an enigmatic puzzle that yearns

5:08

for resolution. The tragic

5:10

and brutal murders of four young children

5:12

whose lives were tragically and abruptly cut

5:15

short continue to baffle and disturb people

5:17

in Detroit, Michigan. These

5:19

innocent victims were forcibly taken, subjected

5:21

to unimaginable suffering and ultimately left

5:23

for the world to discover and

5:26

stealing shock at the incomprehensible brutality

5:28

of such horror. The fact

5:30

that these sickening acts remain unsolved

5:32

is perplexing and once again disturbing

5:34

because during the course of the

5:36

investigation, concerns have arisen regarding the

5:39

treatment of key suspects. Was Christopher

5:41

Bush, the son of a wealthy

5:43

family prematurely released from police custody

5:45

only to commit another murder a

5:47

few days later? The

5:49

prominence of privilege in this case casts

5:51

a shadow over the justice system, raising

5:54

doubts about its integrity. Equally

5:56

disturbing is the close proximity of these

5:58

murders to North Fox. in

12:00

the Miamisburg River in Ohio. While

12:03

the murders of Cynthia Cadoo and

12:05

Sheila Srock were solved, the timing

12:07

of these events in Oakland County

12:09

remains curious. Could they be connected?

12:12

We still don't know. You see,

12:14

Oakland County had already experienced sensational

12:16

events prior to these crimes. In

12:18

July of 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the

12:20

famous Teamster president with alleged mafia

12:22

ties, was last seen in the

12:24

parking lot of the Bruinfield Hills

12:26

in affluent nearby town. So

12:29

you've got the facts. There are

12:31

four children found dead. Please

12:33

say their bodies were scrubbed completely of DNA.

12:36

Please reports that have been uncovered 30, 40

12:39

years later say they weren't actually scrubbed

12:41

and there was DNA and other things

12:43

found on them. But yeah, you've got

12:45

lots of concerned parents, lots of concerned

12:47

people thinking that there's a

12:50

serial killer because of the media attention

12:52

now on the loose in

12:54

Oakland County, Michigan. So let's get into

12:56

what they did to try solve these

12:59

crimes. Law enforcement agencies, noting the striking

13:01

similarities in the case, believe that the

13:03

Oakland County child killer was either acting

13:06

completely alone or as a part of

13:08

a group and they were responsible for

13:10

these four murders. This is

13:12

the point when Oakland County child

13:14

killer is put out in the news. And

13:16

this is something you'll notice in this case

13:18

that I've noticed is that right from the

13:21

get go, the police and the news media

13:23

try to pin all of these murders

13:25

on one single person like a deranged

13:28

serial killer, even though a lot of

13:30

the murders, they have inconsistencies between

13:32

them that would make it more likely that it

13:34

was multiple people that were involved. But you'll see

13:36

that the police and the media really pushed for

13:38

the single killer theory. Now it's

13:41

worth mentioning that each victim was

13:43

found bathed and clothed according to

13:45

the news and deliberately left in

13:47

easily discoverable locations. The evidence also

13:49

indicated that the children were fed

13:51

and kept alive for several days

13:53

before their tragic deaths, adding

13:55

another disturbing element to the crimes. This is

13:57

true. They found food in the stomach. of

13:59

some of the children who had been held

14:01

captive. So this killer was apparently as good

14:03

as care as a

14:05

killer can take of a child. That's what they

14:08

were doing. They were feeding them. I

14:10

mean, it's better than them being starved, I

14:12

guess. At least there's a little bit of

14:14

comfort in the food. So in

14:16

response, a significant investigative effort was

14:18

launched in Michigan, involving

14:20

multiple law enforcement agencies and the

14:23

establishment of a specialized task force.

14:25

This comprehensive investigation involved

14:28

interrogating numerous suspects, employing

14:30

psychics for assistance and

14:32

pursuing countless leads. Despite

14:34

these exhaustive efforts though, the task force

14:37

was ultimately disbanded in December 1978 without

14:40

solving the mystery. To this day,

14:42

this case remains open and unanswered.

14:45

However, a lingering question persists. Is

14:47

the case truly unresolved or has

14:49

the evidence already been found and

14:52

presented, but it's just being ignored?

14:54

Well, there were two major breakthroughs in the case.

14:56

The first breakthrough occurred in 2005 when

14:59

Detective Sergeant Corey Williams of the

15:02

Livonia Police Department in Michigan successfully

15:04

connected information from two unsolved cases.

15:06

Williams solved the murder committed by

15:08

Richard Lawson, a former taxi driver

15:11

who had killed his boss, Xavier

15:13

Giller in 1989, before

15:15

he fled to California. While examining

15:17

Lawson's criminal records from an unrelated

15:19

robbery arrest in Pennsylvania in 1989,

15:23

Detective Williams came across a statement

15:25

made by Richard Lawson that initially

15:27

meant nothing to Pennsylvania authorities but

15:29

held significance to him. Lawson

15:31

mentioned knowing who was responsible for the

15:33

snow killings in Michigan. The snow killings

15:36

are what they called another nickname for

15:38

the Oakland County child killings. So this

15:40

guy who murdered someone had somewhat confessed

15:42

to knowing who committed these crimes. No

15:44

one had listened to him. No one

15:47

had connected the dots until now. Now,

15:49

interestingly enough, Detective Williams himself had been

15:51

a teenager at the time of the

15:54

Oakland County child killing murders and remembered

15:56

them vividly due to his father's involvement

15:58

as a police officer on the case

16:00

back in the 70s. With

16:02

Lawson's revelation, Williams obtained a

16:05

name, Theodore Lamborghin, an

16:07

auto worker residing in Detroit at the

16:09

time of the murders. Now, according to

16:12

Richard Lawson, Ted Lamborghin at one point

16:14

had showed him a photograph, a disturbing

16:16

photograph, a naked photograph of who he

16:19

believed was victim number four, Timothy King.

16:21

Yes, this would be counted as child

16:23

porn. In the photo, Tim was naked

16:26

and Ted Lamborghin looked at the photo

16:28

and told Lawson, cute, isn't he? Now,

16:31

when Ted Lamborghin was pulled over

16:33

after leaving his apartment in Parma

16:36

Heights in 2005, he expressed resignation,

16:38

stating, I knew my past would catch up

16:40

to me. Detective Corey Williams proceeded

16:42

to interrogate Ted Lamborghin, who admitted

16:44

his involvement in a pedophile ring

16:47

in Detroit during the 1970s with

16:49

Richard Lawson, the murderer, and another

16:51

individual known as Bob or bad

16:53

eyed Bob Moore. Ted Lamborghin denied

16:55

any involvement though in the Oakland

16:57

County child killing case, and he

16:59

even agreed to undergo a polygraph

17:01

test to prove his innocence. However,

17:04

he failed the test. Detective Williams

17:06

then confronted Lamborghin, suggesting that his

17:09

failure was not due to fear,

17:11

but rather because he was partly

17:13

responsible for the murders. Ted

17:15

Lamborghin, seemingly remorseful, bowed his head

17:17

to the detective and claimed, God

17:19

has forgiven me. Now, despite

17:22

Lamborghin's failed polygraph test, this was not

17:24

a crime in itself, and there were

17:26

no charges that could be brought against

17:29

him, so consequently, he was released. Reporters

17:31

attempted to question him on one occasion, but

17:33

he quickly dismissed them. But the breakthrough in

17:36

the case occurred in 2006 when

17:38

Ohio police wore hidden recording devices

17:41

during their conversation with Ted Lamborghin

17:43

regarding allegations made by 16 victims

17:46

who claimed he had brutally assaulted them when

17:48

they were minors. On tape,

17:50

Ted Lamborghin admitted to assaulting these young

17:52

victims, all boys who were under 15

17:55

years old. So, as it turns

17:57

out, Ted Lamborghin was indeed

17:59

a a hardcore pedophile. So

18:02

obviously after catching this admission

18:05

on hidden recording, Ted Lamborghini

18:07

was arrested. Now upon

18:09

his arrest, Ted sat in handcuffs in the

18:11

back of a squad car and said, maybe

18:13

God has a plan. Although

18:15

he was facing three life felony

18:17

charges, Ted refused an offer of

18:20

a 10 year sentence in exchange

18:22

for providing information about the Oakland

18:24

County child killings. This

18:26

raises questions about what he feared so

18:28

much that he would opt to spend

18:30

the rest of his life behind bars.

18:33

Now keep that in mind for a second for a

18:35

little bit of perspective. He could have

18:37

spent 10 years in prison and

18:39

been out if he had just been honest about

18:42

what he knew which he obviously knows about the

18:44

Oakland County child killings. Instead,

18:46

he chose prison for the rest of his

18:48

life. So the truth of

18:50

this situation is so much more disturbing, so

18:52

much more dangerous, so much

18:54

just more vile that Ted Lamborghini

18:57

chose a life in prison to

18:59

protect that secret. I mean, that's

19:01

fucking hardcore. But let's keep moving. The

19:04

second breakthrough occurred in July 2006 when

19:07

polygrapher Patrick Coffey met another polygrapher

19:09

who claimed to have tested the

19:11

Oakland County child killer. Coincidentally,

19:14

Patrick Coffey lived on the same

19:16

street as Timothy King, victim number

19:19

4, and had been friends with Tim's older brother,

19:21

Chris King. Tim's murder had actually

19:24

inspired Coffey to pursue a career in

19:26

law enforcement which led him there to

19:28

the polygrapher's convention. Now during

19:30

a conference speech on immigration trials

19:32

in California, Coffey was approached by

19:34

a Michigan-based private polygrapher, Larry Wasser.

19:36

The two of them discussed Coffey

19:38

visiting Michigan for speaking engagements when

19:40

Larry Wasser mentioned that he was

19:42

from Michigan and entered the field

19:44

of polygraphing due to his childhood

19:46

neighbor and friend Tim King being

19:48

a victim of the Oakland County

19:50

child killer. Larry Wasser

19:53

then dropped a bombshell on Coffey,

19:55

stating that he had actually administered

19:57

a polygraph test to the quote,

19:59

God. who killed Coffee's neighbor, Tim

20:02

King. Now, although Coffee

20:04

pressed Wasser for more information, Wasser

20:06

only revealed that the polygraph was

20:08

related to a separate case and

20:10

that both the guy and his

20:12

attorney were deceased. Now, Wasser's disclosure

20:14

went against ethical obligations to his

20:16

client and he later denied ever

20:18

making such statements to Coffee, but

20:20

nevertheless, Coffee shared this information with

20:22

Tim King's siblings, Chris and Cathy

20:24

King, who in turn related to

20:27

Detective Williams. Now a part

20:29

of the new Oakland County Child Killer Task

20:31

Force. Detective Williams was

20:33

highly interested in the information provided

20:35

by Larry Wasser and in an

20:37

attempt to gather more details, Williams

20:39

issued a subpoena to Larry Wasser.

20:41

However, Larry sought legal representation and

20:43

refused to say anything further, being

20:46

aware that he had violated attorney-client

20:48

privilege during his conversation with Patrick

20:50

Coffee. Nevertheless, Larry Wasser

20:52

did disclose to Detective Williams without

20:54

revealing any names that the individual

20:56

he had administered a polygraph test

20:58

to had confessed to the Oakland

21:01

County Child Killing crimes in great

21:03

detail, as well as other disturbing

21:05

offenses against children. This incident

21:07

took place in 1978, one

21:10

year after the death of Timothy King

21:12

or victim number four. So despite claiming

21:14

he had a poor memory and refusing

21:16

to provide a name, Larry Wasser's extensive

21:18

knowledge allowed Detective Williams to narrow down

21:21

the list of suspects. By

21:23

showing Larry a group of individuals who had been

21:25

polygraphed and cleared in 1977, it

21:28

only took minutes for him to identify

21:30

Christopher Bush as the guy. Now,

21:33

before we move into Christopher Bush, let's

21:35

explore who Greg Green is. On

21:39

January 25th, 1977, Greg

21:41

Green was arrested in Flint, Michigan

21:44

for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.

21:46

During his interview with Flint detective Tom

21:49

Waldron, Gregory Green implicated Chris Bush

21:51

as the killer of Mark Stebbins,

21:53

victim number one of the Oakland

21:55

County Child Killing. Gregory

21:57

Green was originally from Flint, Michigan,

22:00

to California in the early 1970s

22:02

where he became involved in coaching

22:04

a young boys baseball team. Of

22:06

course, this is where these people are always drawn.

22:09

Now, Gregory Green molested multiple

22:11

members of this team he

22:13

coached and he faced multiple

22:15

charges including criminal sexual conduct,

22:17

kidnapping, and attempted murder. Green

22:20

spent six months in Orange County

22:22

Jail after choking two victims, one

22:24

of whom almost died when Green

22:26

strangled him while sodomizing him. Now

22:29

Gregory Green burned this young boy with cigarettes as

22:31

an attempt to wake him up because he thought

22:33

he was dead, then dumped him on the grass

22:35

near a hospital and sped off in his car.

22:38

This victim survived and identified Greg

22:40

to law enforcement. It's important

22:42

to note a similarity with victim number two

22:44

of the Oakland County child killings. Now,

22:47

Jill Robinson's body was dumped near the

22:49

Troy Police Department. Green's arrest took

22:51

place on August 2, 1974. In

22:55

question about his sexual experiences with

22:57

women, Gregory Green admitted to struggling

22:59

to become aroused. On

23:01

January 31, 1975,

23:04

Green was sentenced to the Patton State

23:06

Mental Hospital in San Bernardino, California as

23:08

a mentally disturbed sex offender. This occurred

23:11

one year prior to the start of

23:13

the Oakland County child killings. Less

23:16

than a year later, on January 21, 1976, Gregory Green was released

23:18

and returned to Michigan

23:22

just days before the abduction

23:24

and murder of Mark Stebbins,

23:26

or victim number one. In

23:28

May of 1976, Christopher Bush

23:30

and Greg Green abducted Kenneth Bowman,

23:32

a 13-year-old boy whom they subsequently

23:34

sodomized in a wooded area. Bowman

23:36

recalled that Green displayed more violence

23:38

during this incident and even choked

23:40

him until he lost consciousness. Further

23:43

evidence of Green's dangerous tendencies emerged when

23:45

he asked Bowman to accompany him to

23:48

a store with the intention of kidnapping

23:50

and killing another young boy. Gregory Green

23:52

told this young boy, you should come

23:54

with me to the store so we

23:56

can kidnap, rape and murder a

23:59

different young boy. Boy. Due to

24:01

the sexual crimes against Kenneth Bowman, Gregory Green,

24:03

after he was caught, was brought in for

24:05

questioning by the Flint Police Department on January

24:07

25, 1977, which is

24:10

when Green implicated Chris Bush as the

24:12

killer of Mark Stebbins. The

24:15

following day, after this confession,

24:17

the police searched Gregory Green's van

24:19

and discovered two pairs of panties,

24:21

but no further action was taken

24:23

regarding these findings. Could these panties

24:25

have belonged to victims Jill Robinson

24:28

and Christine Mihailik? On the

24:30

same day, Christopher Bush was apprehended

24:32

by the Flint Police Department for

24:34

sexual crimes against children, specifically for

24:37

crimes against Bowman, who was abducted

24:39

by Green and Christopher. Christopher

24:42

Bush denied any involvement in Mark Stebbins'

24:44

murder, but admitted to being a part

24:46

of the Big Brother program, and he

24:48

even provided pickup spots where he would

24:50

pick up children as a part of

24:52

the program. Spots that eerily coincided with

24:54

the locations where the first three Oakland

24:57

County child killing victims were abducted from.

24:59

So he willfully gave this information and said, oh

25:02

yeah, I helped children in these areas. This is

25:04

where I pick them up from. Three

25:06

of those areas were the spots where

25:08

children were abducted to be murdered as

25:10

a part of Oakland County child killer.

25:12

Crazy. Now Christopher Bush mentioned

25:15

to the police that he had a shared

25:17

fantasy with Gregory Green involving a

25:19

split shift child imprisonment scenario, where one

25:21

captor would work during the day and

25:24

the other at night to ensure that

25:26

one captor was always present with their

25:28

victim who was being held hostage. Christopher

25:31

Bush underwent a polygraph test administered

25:33

by Ralph Cabot and he was

25:35

cleared. However, upon closer examination of

25:38

Cabot's polygraph results in February 2008,

25:41

three separate examiners concluded that

25:43

Christopher Bush's results should have

25:45

been inconclusive. Now, after

25:48

Christopher and Gregory Green were arrested

25:50

for the kidnapping and rape of

25:52

that young boy, Kenneth Bowman, Christopher

25:55

Bush's residence in Alma, Michigan

25:57

was searched by police. Here

26:00

the police discovered shotguns and a

26:02

massive amount of child pornography, and

26:04

this evidence would never be seen

26:07

again. We're going to talk about

26:09

that in a second. On January 31, 1977,

26:11

Christopher Bush was released on bond after his

26:14

arrest. Subsequently, he faced several

26:16

more arrests connected to sexual encounters with

26:18

young boys, but every time

26:20

that he was arrested and charged,

26:22

he was shortly released afterwards. Now,

26:25

the question really starts to rise in

26:28

one's mind as to why the police

26:30

repeatedly let Christopher go and get away

26:32

with these crimes despite having him in

26:34

custody multiple times on

26:37

multiple different disturbing sex crime

26:39

charges against kids. One

26:42

possible explanation as to why he kept

26:44

getting arrested and released is Christopher Bush's

26:46

wealth. For example, Gregory

26:48

Green received a life sentence while Christopher

26:50

Bush did not for their involvement in

26:53

the same crime that led to their

26:55

questioning. Now, Gregory Green died in

26:57

prison in the mid-1990s. However,

26:59

in 2008, Detective Williams interviewed Gregory

27:02

Green's former cellmate, who stated that

27:04

Gregory said he killed four kids

27:06

and got away with it. This

27:09

cellmate passed a polygraph test. So

27:11

we've got Gregory Green admitting that he murdered

27:13

children. He's implicating Chris Bush back in the

27:16

70s. Gregory Green

27:18

and Chris Bush together had already

27:20

kidnapped and molested a young boy.

27:22

They had both been found with

27:25

child porn. They were both hardcore

27:27

pedophiles and yet never officially a

27:29

suspect or anything. Crazy, right?

27:32

And now we're going to get into the even

27:34

wilder part of this Christopher Bush's story. So

27:38

who is Christopher Bush and how

27:40

is he able to evade connection

27:42

to the Oakland County child killing

27:44

crimes or any other crimes despite

27:46

being a key suspect along with

27:48

his accomplice and friend Greg Green?

27:50

So Christopher Bush was the son

27:53

of Harold Lee Bush and

27:55

Christopher held significant power and influence

27:57

within the community due to his

27:59

father's high ranking. executive position at

28:02

General Motors. That's right, Christopher Bush's

28:04

father, Harold Lee Bush, was the

28:06

chief financial officer of General Motors,

28:09

so his family was extremely wealthy

28:12

and his family held a lot of

28:14

power in the Detroit area. This is

28:16

back when Detroit was Motor City and

28:18

cars ruled Detroit's economy, so needless to

28:21

say, Christopher Bush had some power behind

28:23

him. He attended the prestigious Institute La

28:25

Rosie in Switzerland, which has a history

28:27

of educating royalty and is often referred

28:30

to as the School of Kings. According

28:33

to his brother Charles, it's believed that

28:35

Christopher's attraction to young boys began during

28:37

his time at La Rosie. Christopher

28:39

Bush even molested his own brother

28:41

John Bush's sons, Brent and Scott.

28:44

So there was a phone call made on March 19, 1977,

28:46

urging the police to investigate Christopher Bush's

28:50

cottage by the lake as he was

28:52

seen with two minors. However,

28:55

no action was taken. Only

28:57

afterwards, on March 22, just three days

28:59

later, Timothy King's bruised,

29:02

battered, raped, lifeless body was

29:04

discovered. An article published on

29:06

March 12, 1977 in

29:08

the Travis City Record Eagle mentioned

29:11

Christopher Bush in relation to the

29:13

North Fox Island child pornography ring.

29:16

The article stated that the child

29:18

pornography ring obtained roles, film roles,

29:20

of child porn from Chris. Obviously,

29:23

as you can imagine, child porn

29:25

that Christopher himself had filmed with his

29:27

victims, which indicated that Christopher

29:29

had a much deeper involvement with

29:32

the child porn ring than being

29:34

just a client who purchased this

29:36

sickening material. And now

29:38

we get into North Fox Island. This is

29:41

crazy. So we could do a whole podcast

29:43

about this, and I think I'm actually going

29:45

to do a separate North Fox Island podcast

29:47

because there is so much information here connecting

29:50

this pedophile ring to Catholic churches,

29:52

to other pedophile rings in America,

29:55

to Boy Scout troops, other serial

29:57

killers. It's crazy what happened on

29:59

this island. But let's

30:01

talk about it briefly. The

30:03

events surrounding North Fox Island are

30:06

also, like we said before, worth

30:08

investigating. On July 23, 1976,

30:11

Gerald Richards, a gym coach at

30:13

St. Joseph's Elementary in Port Huron,

30:15

Michigan, was arrested for engaging in

30:17

homosexual activity with a 10-year-old boy.

30:20

Richards, who worked as a magician part-time

30:22

and is definitely one of the creepiest

30:24

looking guys I've ever seen, was

30:27

directly connected to Frances Sheldon's North

30:29

Fox Island operation, where child pornography

30:31

was being produced and sold and

30:34

sexual activities involving children took place.

30:36

Gerald Richards provided information about Frank Sheldon to

30:39

the police as a part of a plea

30:41

deal. He implicated Dyer

30:43

Grossman, a New York millionaire, Adam

30:45

Starchild, an expert in money laundering,

30:48

and Reverend Claudius Budd, Irma Vermile,

30:50

a pastor of Alto Parish in

30:52

Tennessee, who later served prison time

30:54

for operating a house of boy

30:57

prostitution. You see, a role

30:59

of undeveloped film sent to Gerald Richards

31:01

from California was discovered to contain photos

31:03

taken at Boys Farm, Inc. in Alto,

31:05

Tennessee. Boys Farm was an

31:08

organization affiliated with a church and ran

31:10

by a priest that had been exploiting

31:12

children for years. The police raided

31:14

Boys Farm on November 10, 1976,

31:17

resulting in the arrest of Richard Vermile. It

31:20

was revealed that the victims were

31:22

given alcohol, shown pornography, and then

31:24

coerced into participating in underage orgies

31:26

that were filmed. Now,

31:28

Frances Sheldon, the proprietor of North

31:30

Fox Island, the billionaire pedophile who

31:33

escaped on his plane, Epstein of

31:35

the 1970s, was among the list of

31:37

300 sponsors associated with

31:39

Boys Farm. So, in

31:41

December of 1976, the Michigan

31:43

State Police issued two warrants for the

31:46

arrest of Frances Sheldon for crimes involving

31:48

the molestation of a 10-year-old boy and

31:50

a 14-year-old boy. Frances

31:52

Sheldon, however, was gone. It

31:55

seems that he had been given a tip-off,

31:57

whether that was from his accomplice Gerald words,

31:59

or from someone he knew in the police.

32:02

So when authorities went to raid Francis

32:04

Sheldon's offices, Francis had already been given

32:06

the time and Francis had emptied every

32:08

single one of his filing cabinets. He

32:11

had burned all of his paperwork. He

32:13

had made sure there was no evidence to be found

32:16

on North Fox Island itself. There was

32:18

nothing left for Francis Sheldon. And like I

32:20

said before, he took off on a plane

32:22

and vanished into thin air. Later on he

32:24

was found in Europe, but we'll talk about

32:26

that in a second. Now the

32:29

North Fox Island pedophile ring was

32:31

organized as a boys camp. So

32:33

this is insane. Francis

32:35

Sheldon, Gerald Richards, the pedophiles who

32:37

started this whole thing, along with

32:39

those other guys I just listed,

32:42

they all conspired and basically

32:44

created an organization that promised

32:47

parents from local communities an

32:49

opportunity to let their

32:51

child explore some of Lake Michigan

32:53

without having to take them there

32:55

themselves. Frank Sheldon was really involved

32:57

with the local community. People

33:00

absolutely loved him. He would stop

33:02

by people's houses for dinner. People

33:05

absolutely trusted him with their kids. And

33:07

Francis flew children frequently to and from

33:09

North Fox Island as a vacation of

33:12

sorts to this boys camp. But

33:14

that's the disturbing part is once Francis

33:16

Sheldon and Gerald Richards got these children

33:18

all the way to this private Island,

33:20

18 miles off the coast

33:23

in the middle of Lake Michigan, there was nowhere they

33:25

could go. There was no one that could hear their

33:27

screams. And once they got these boys there, they

33:30

brutally raped these boys.

33:32

They sometimes gang rape these boys and

33:35

they filmed and took photos of all

33:37

of this to sell. So when you

33:39

cut it down even further, how was

33:41

North Fox Island getting this money and

33:44

how is it being hush hush? Well,

33:46

it's pretty crazy. Francis Sheldon and

33:48

Gerald Richards had organized North Fox

33:50

Island in such a way that

33:53

it actually qualified for government assistance. So

33:55

they were taking in these boys that

33:57

came from poorer homes. homes and communities

33:59

and providing them with these experiences and

34:01

fun times during the summer, teaching them

34:03

lessons about manhood and being good influences.

34:06

At least that's what they were claiming

34:08

to do when in reality, they were

34:10

taking these boys to the island to

34:12

rape them and sell the videos of

34:14

the rapes across the world. And

34:16

what's crazy is since their

34:18

company was sponsored by the

34:21

government, Gerald Richards and Francis Sheldon actually

34:23

were paid by the government per child

34:25

they brought to the island. I think

34:27

the monetary value was $1,500 or $1,250

34:29

back then. But

34:33

let's go with $1,500. That's in 1970s dollars.

34:36

I don't know what that would be nowadays. But that

34:39

means that Francis Sheldon and these other pedophiles were literally

34:41

getting paid by the U.S. government to bring these children

34:43

out there. They were paying them $1,500 a head to

34:45

take care of these boys. So

34:49

they were making money not only from

34:51

the government, but they also had this

34:53

thing called sponsorship. So if you wanted

34:55

to sponsor the boys camp and on

34:58

the surface provide funding for new buildings

35:00

on the island for more experiences for

35:02

the children, you could become a sponsor

35:04

of the boys camp. But what was

35:06

really happening is these creepy men were

35:08

sponsoring the boys camp put on by

35:10

Francis Sheldon and Gerald Richards. And

35:13

in exchange for their monthly donation, they

35:15

would be mailed an envelope in the

35:17

mail containing pornographic child porn images that

35:19

were taken on North Fox Island. And

35:21

sometimes it would get strips of film

35:24

of child porn that was once again

35:26

filmed at North Fox Island. So

35:28

it's not like this was low key. There

35:30

were hundreds, thousands of pedophiles that were donating

35:33

to this organization so that they could receive

35:35

child porn in the mail every month. There

35:37

were hundreds of victims, children that were being raped

35:40

out on the island that I

35:42

think were afraid to come forward. I don't exactly

35:44

know why, you know, the

35:46

story never broke. I'm sure children were silenced and all

35:49

of that. But this whole storm

35:51

was brewing. So eventually when one child

35:53

reported that they had been molested on

35:55

the island and people started talking

35:58

about it, that's when the police knew. They

36:00

had to crack down on North Fox Island.

36:02

I mean, there's a lot of this. This

36:04

North Fox Island is tied into John David

36:06

Norman, one of the biggest producers of child

36:08

porn in American history. It's

36:11

tied to Boy Scout troop 137 in

36:13

New Orleans, another child porn factory. It's

36:15

tied to the Houston child porn warehouse

36:17

where four tons of child porn were

36:19

found in the 1970s. And

36:22

it's just disgusting how none of these

36:24

people except Gerald Richards ever

36:26

were punished for these crimes. Francis

36:29

Sheldon got away scot-free. The hundreds of pedophiles that

36:31

received this child porn in the mail, none of

36:34

them were ever arrested. The people who

36:36

were on the island running this stuff, only

36:38

Gerald Richards was arrested. I'm sure there were more

36:40

people there than just him. And

36:42

there were some videos apparently that depicted

36:44

multiple men assaulting these boys. But

36:47

anyways, when this all was found out,

36:49

Francis Sheldon left the country. He

36:51

was able to escape. And in contrast

36:53

to this, Gerald Richards did not possess the

36:56

same level of wealth. He was

36:58

the sole individual involved in the

37:00

North Fox Island operation who was

37:02

found guilty and sentenced to prison,

37:04

even though he literally only served

37:06

about two years. For

37:08

running an international child pornography

37:10

ring, victimizing hundreds of children,

37:13

for sexually assaulting

37:15

kids himself, a little

37:17

over two years in prison. This guy got it.

37:19

How fucked up is that? And

37:21

although Gerald Richards was released from prison in 1980, he

37:23

was re-arrested in 1988, eight

37:27

years later by postal inspectors on

37:30

charges related to child pornography tracking.

37:33

So he couldn't stop. This Gerald Richards

37:35

guy was busted with one of the

37:37

biggest child porn busts of all time

37:39

he spoke in front of the US

37:42

government at Senate hearings. And

37:44

then he got out and did it again. And

37:46

eventually Gerald Richards killed himself at the age

37:48

of 49 in 1996. So

37:52

he's dead. Now, at the formation

37:54

of all this, Gerald Richards initially encountered

37:56

Francis Sheldon through a publication known as

37:59

Better Life. magazine, a magazine which catered

38:01

to men with an interest in young

38:03

boys. This magazine used a coded pedophile

38:05

language to let people know what they

38:08

were really talking about. Now,

38:10

according to Michael Farquhar, a victim

38:12

who was molested as a child

38:14

during that time period, there were

38:16

lawyers, doctors, and politicians present on

38:18

North Fox Island. This wasn't

38:20

just a child pornography production island, this

38:23

was an island where rich people could

38:26

pay Francis Sheldon, pay anybody, and

38:28

fly out to rape a child.

38:30

Obviously, this account brings to mind the

38:33

story of Jeffrey Epstein and his association

38:35

with underage children, as well as his

38:37

connections to wealth and power, the

38:40

millionaires that were using Epstein to

38:42

procure children for them. And

38:45

yeah, this raises a lot of questions about

38:47

whether this sort of stuff is still

38:49

happening today. I have an

38:51

easy answer for you. Yes. Yes,

38:54

it does. It's happening right now while

38:56

I'm recording this. It's happening while you're

38:58

watching this a day,

39:00

two weeks, years later. It's happening.

39:03

And we also have to look at the case of

39:05

Johnny Gosh. We're going to be doing a full Johnny

39:07

Gosh episode soon, but Johnny Gosh

39:09

was a 12 year old paper boy who went

39:11

missing from Des Moines, Iowa. Gosh

39:13

was one of the first missing children featured

39:16

on milk cartons as a part of a

39:18

campaign. Paul Benassi, a young teenager at the

39:20

time of Johnny's abduction, claimed his involvement in

39:22

a pedophile network by assuming the role of

39:25

lure to bring in youthful victims. So

39:28

there are pedophile rings and networks everywhere. And

39:30

Paul Benassi, all of that we're going to

39:32

be talking about. There's a big project that

39:34

I am involved with coming soon, but we're

39:36

not going to get too much into that

39:38

now. But these pedophile rings in the 1970s

39:41

were happening everywhere and no one

39:43

was ever brought to justice for them. We

39:46

need to find these people and fucking skewer

39:48

them to the fullest extent of the law,

39:50

in my opinion. Nowadays, a lot of them

39:52

are still alive, locked them the

39:54

fuck up. But anyways, back to

39:56

it. One undeniable fact is

39:58

that there is mitochondrial. DNA evidence linking

40:00

Christopher Bush and Gregory Green to a

40:03

victim of the Oakland County child killer

40:05

through a connection to one of Chris

40:07

and Greg's victims, a man named Vince

40:10

Gunnels who turned into a pedophile himself.

40:12

Now Vince Gunnels was sexually assaulted

40:14

by Christopher Bush and Gregory Green

40:17

during the mid 1970s when he

40:19

was still a young teenager. However,

40:21

he eventually became a willing participant.

40:23

Now Vince Gunnels mitochondrial DNA was

40:25

found on Christine Mihailik. Speculation

40:28

suggests that Vince Gunnels may have been

40:30

used as a bait to lure other

40:32

victims towards Christopher Bush and Gregory Green

40:34

due to him being young and somewhat

40:36

attractive at the time. Now, while he

40:39

was incarcerated for sex crimes against children,

40:41

Vince Gunnels made an intriguing statement over

40:43

the phone to his sister Karen Zaspel

40:45

saying, I wasn't there when it happened. Implying

40:48

possible involvement. Now Vince Gunnels was

40:50

also acquainted with Christopher Bush's nephews

40:53

Scott and Brent Bush who were

40:55

also victims of abuse by Christopher

40:57

and Gregory. Detective Williams

40:59

initiated an interview with Brent Bush in February

41:01

of 2008 during which

41:03

Brent immediately inquired if it pertained to

41:06

Gregory Green. Upon confirmation

41:08

that the investigation covered both Gregory

41:10

and his uncle Christopher, Brent disclosed

41:12

that both individuals engaged in anal

41:14

intercourse with him and coerced him

41:16

into performing sexual acts with other

41:18

boys while they took photographs. Detective

41:21

Williams further interviewed Brent's brother Scott

41:23

regarding their uncle leading to a

41:25

startling revelation. Here's a quote, Detective

41:28

Williams, you recalled something that happened when you

41:30

were riding around with Chris one time. Scott

41:32

Bush. Yeah, there were some boys that had

41:34

been missing in the paper and I was

41:37

curious to see where they were abducted from and

41:39

he took me to a place where he, the

41:41

victim, was abducted from and he said he, the

41:43

victim, was standing right over there and I thought

41:45

that was weird that he'd know that. Detective

41:48

Grey. His words were Scott Bush. His

41:51

words were that's where he, the victim,

41:53

was standing. Detective Williams. He,

41:56

the victim, was standing right over there.

41:58

Scott Bush. Yeah. I

46:00

think he ended up killing himself just a little

46:02

bit after Christopher Bush did a few days, but

46:04

I could be wrong on that. So

46:07

yeah, the first responding officer was a pedophile. Another

46:10

suspicious incident involved Officer Christopher Flynn,

46:12

who allegedly shot himself twice in

46:14

the chest shortly before Christopher Bush's

46:16

suicide. In the book The Kill

46:19

Jar by J. Reuben Appelman, Christopher

46:21

Flynn is portrayed as a concerned

46:23

father who received information from a

46:25

young boy named Chris Sadecki claiming

46:27

to have witnessed a police officer

46:29

escorting victim number three into his

46:31

car. After Flynn was

46:33

informed of this account, he died days

46:36

later. However, in other narratives about the

46:38

Oakland County child killings case, Christopher Flynn

46:40

is painted as a potential suspect himself.

46:44

So basically a individual told Christopher

46:46

Flynn, who was a police officer,

46:48

that he had witnessed one of

46:50

the victims being led not

46:52

by one of the suspects, but he saw

46:54

this victim being abducted by a police officer.

46:57

So this child told authorities what he

46:59

saw, that the police were involved with

47:01

the kidnapping. Shortly afterwards, Christopher

47:03

Flynn, the first guy he told about it,

47:05

shot himself twice in the chest. Just think

47:08

of that sentence. And then in

47:10

this weird pattern, all of the people that

47:12

Chris Sadecki, this person who saw the policeman

47:14

with the victim, every time he would tell

47:16

somebody the story, they would die. There

47:19

were car accidents, there were suicides. The

47:22

police officers, including the guy he claimed to

47:24

have seen, actually showed up to

47:26

Chris's house when he was young and allegedly

47:28

beat the shit out of him, breaking bones,

47:31

threatening him to stay silent. So yeah, if

47:33

what he saw is real, then that once

47:35

again changes this entire story and shows that

47:37

the police were involved in this entire thing.

47:40

Now the Oakland County Child Killer Task Force

47:42

disbanded in December of 1978, just one

47:46

month after Chris Bush's suicide, which

47:48

suggests that they believed further investigation

47:51

was unnecessary. Tim Nummer was

47:53

a childhood friend of Timothy King, one of

47:55

the victims. When Tim Nummer was

47:57

in his 20s, he worked at a clothing store in

47:59

the evening. During this time, he had

48:01

a conversation with a man who claimed to be

48:03

a retired detective. Curious about

48:05

the detective's background, Nummer asked him about

48:08

any famous cases he had worked on.

48:10

To Nummer's surprise, the retired detective mentioned

48:12

the Oakland County child killings. Nummer

48:15

expressed disappointment that the case remained

48:17

unsolved, and in response, the detective

48:19

cryptically stated, it's been taken care

48:21

of. This detective was

48:23

identified as Jack Hulmflesh and

48:25

has confirmed this conversation. Given

48:29

the multitude of suspects associated with this

48:31

case, it is challenging to keep track

48:33

of them all. It appears highly probable

48:35

that multiple individuals were involved in the

48:37

Oakland County child killer crimes, a collective

48:39

effort rather than the work of one

48:41

or two people, a team killing. Another

48:44

notable suspect is Arch Sloan, who is

48:47

currently serving prison time for raping a

48:49

10-year-old boy. At one point,

48:51

Arch Sloan worked as a driver for

48:53

a book mobile unit, a mobile library

48:55

delivering books to underprivileged children. However,

48:57

he exploited this position to victimize six

49:00

young boys aged between 11 and 14

49:02

from 1970 to 1971. Now,

49:06

Arch Sloan received a sentence of 5 to

49:08

10 years in prison, but was released early

49:10

to work at a service station where he

49:12

served as a mechanic and tow truck driver,

49:15

occasionally collaborating with the police. On

49:17

the night of Mark Steben's death, or victim

49:19

number one, Arch Sloan's parole officer saw a

49:21

news coverage and immediately thought of him as

49:24

a possible suspect. The parole

49:26

officer promptly contacted Southfield police and

49:28

requested they search Sloan's 1966

49:31

Pontiac Bonneville. It's worth noting that this occurred

49:33

in 1976, when

49:35

DNA analysis was not yet employed

49:37

by crime labs. However, in

49:40

2010, DNA obtained from a mysterious

49:42

hair found in Arch Sloan's car was

49:44

matched to hairs found on Mark Steben's

49:46

and Timothy King's genitals. Now,

49:49

this phantom hair did not belong to

49:51

Arch Sloan, leaving the identity of the

49:53

hair unknown. But this is

49:55

a direct connection between Arch Sloan and

49:57

two of the victims through DNA. This

50:00

was a huge break in the case. Now,

50:02

in the documentary Children of the Snow, released

50:04

in 2019, retired Michigan State Police Detective

50:08

David Robertson, whose father led the

50:10

original Oakland County Child Killing Task

50:12

Force in the 1970s, discussed the

50:14

DNA evidence reviewed in 2010. Robertson

50:18

mentioned confronting Arch Sloan about his Bonneville,

50:20

his car, to which Arch claimed it

50:23

had been sold to a Michigan State

50:25

Police Lieutenant's son. Notably,

50:27

the DNA found on victim number

50:29

three's jacket was a mitochondrial match

50:31

to that of someone related to

50:33

law enforcement. When pressed further about

50:35

excluding the state policeman's son as

50:38

a suspect, Robertson became evasive. Detective

50:41

Williams, when confronted with this information, acknowledged

50:43

that the car had indeed belonged to

50:45

a trooper's son, but maintained that there

50:47

could be no possible link to victim

50:49

number three. This response raises

50:51

eyebrows as Detective Williams appeared dedicated

50:53

to solving this case, but seemed

50:56

protective when suspicions shifted towards someone

50:58

within law enforcement. It's

51:00

highly probable that one of the suspects involved

51:02

in the case has ties to the police,

51:04

particularly since the witness, Chris Sadecki, claims he

51:07

saw Christine Mihailik get into a car with

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a police officer in full uniform at the

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parking lot of the 7-Eleven and the two

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drove away before later on she

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was found abducted, raped, and murdered.

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Another person of interest, John Crosby, who

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was associated with Arch Sloan, came under

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police scrutiny due to his connection with

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a pedophile named William Yarbrough. Adding

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another layer to the story, Helen

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D'Agner, who was married to a

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police officer that committed suicide four

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years before John Bush's suicide, claimed

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to have met a man named John

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Hastings in 1991 who confessed to being

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the Oakland County child killer. However,

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when questioned by the police about his

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interactions with D'Agner, John Hastings claimed

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he was providing false information. He

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said he was just filling D'Agner with what she wanted to

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hear. John Hastings, interestingly enough,

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was actually a person of interest

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in the original Oakland County child

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killing investigation.